Later this month...

 

Coldplay will announce a new marketing campaign later this month, which their manager says will have “a huge global reach”. Dave Holmes, the band’s long time partner, said the idea was “pretty significant” and that he couldn’t “afford to have it get out.”

 

Holmes’ announcement comes after it was revealed that the band’s new single ‘Violet Hill’ was downloaded 2 million times for free from their website. The single, which has now been released as a paid-for digital-download, was available to download from Coldplay’s website for one week.

 

According to Music Week, the band are currently recording material which didn’t make it onto their forthcoming album, ‘Viva La Vida’ - which is out on June 12th. The songs are expected to be released by the band’s record label EMI alongside the new album.

 

As previously reported, Coldplay will play three free shows this June in Barcelona, New York and London. Tickets will only be available via the band’s website.

 

http://www.gigwise.com/news/42951/coldplay-to-announce-new-initiative-with-huge-global-reach

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The songs are expected to be released by the band’s record label EMI alongside the new album.

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YES!

Big News. :o Anyone else excited again?

oohh what's that big announcement ? :dance:

 

NEW SONGS other than the ones on the album ?????????

 

this is GREAT news !!! thanks !

Flipping heck with huge bells on the end - this is so exciting! How many more surprises are these guys going to spring on us???!!!

Viva Coldplay! I just hope this global reach means they get to play a concert in Austria or even here in Slovenia!! Ok, I'll stop dreaming now! :D

:freak:

 

?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

 

IF THIS IS WHAT I THINK IT IS, I WILL EXPLODE INTO A MILLION PIECES RIGHT NOW.

I wonder why they are recording extra songs, do they mean an extra album will be released along with VLV?

Go COLDPLAY!!!MORE SONGS!!!!!!:)

Wow. Exciting :dance:

Wonder what's this all about.

:freak:

 

?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

 

IF THIS IS WHAT I THINK IT IS, I WILL EXPLODE INTO A MILLION PIECES RIGHT NOW.

mind the carpet :shocked2::rolleyes:

Coldplay plan summer of big surprises

 

09:39 | Tuesday May 6, 2008

By Robert Ashton

 

Last week’s phenomenally successful free single download just the start, claim Coldplay management and label

 

Coldplay have not finished with surprises in the run-up to the release of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, with a “significant major initiative” planned around another single taken from the album on May 21. (!!!)

With the band recording additional material that did not make the album’s final cut, Parlophone is also promising a treat for fans, with a number of other non-album tracks eventually seeing the light of day.

 

 

Downloads of the giveaway digital single Violet Hill hit around the 1.5m mark at the end of last week, and the band’s management company, LA based 3D Management, and record company Parlophone are now ratcheting up the marketing campaign to follow the free download that started on April 29.

Coldplay’s manager Dave Holmes is already promising something special for the third week in May. “It’s one pretty significant thing, although I can’t afford to have it get out,” he says. “You’ll understand why when I tell you, but it is a major initiative with huge global reach.”

For the full story see this week's Music Week magazine out today.

 

http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1034119&c=1

OH MY GOD.

Coldplay have not finished with surprises in the run-up to the release of Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, with a “significant major initiative” planned around another single taken from the album on May 21. (!!!)

 

:shocked2::shocked2::shocked2::shocked2:

Does anyone have this week's Music Week that may like to scan 'the whole story' pleeeease?

CAN'T WAIT!!

i just....i don't know what to do with myself. if this is *basically* a double album, then i wholeheartedly apologize to whoever suggested this possiblility like a month ago. i cannot BELIEVE that this is what's happening.

 

and i'll clean up the carpet once i've completely finished exploding, ian ;)

 

 

BIGGEST SQUEE EVERRRRRRRRR

 

:dance: :dance: :dance:

and somehow i missed the fact that THERE WILL BE ANOTHER SINGLE ON MAY 21.

 

thank you, chavi!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

oh. my. GOD.

perhaps a concert in london on 8/2 isn't so far fetched after all...all my other coldplay dreams are coming true :P

what an amazing month this is!!!! so glad to be in NY.

i am so preoccupied with this, nothing is getting done.

 

we are all going to EXPLODE!!!!!

 

maybe they are making up for not having the Toronto DVD

Big squeeze around the world

Hehe, fantastic.:) This is amazing.

GENERAL SQUEE EVERYBODY !! :dance: :dance:

Hold on, let me check...Yep, I just wet my pants.

OH MY GOD.

somebody shout?

we are all going to EXPLODE!!!!!

nooooooooooooooooo! :shocked3:

Hold on, let me check...Yep, I just wet my pants.

bits of exploded body pieces and piss. The carpet's ruined :bomb: